Swiss Alpine resorts covered in white gold for Christmas

Many areas at low altitudes in Switzerland are enjoying a blanket of snow. In the mountains, the intense precipitation of the last few days has delighted skiers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Snow has arrived in almost all of Switzerland. It is abundant in the Alps, wrote MeteoSwiss on the X social network. Since Friday night, more than a metre of snow has fallen in the high Alps, adds MeteoNews on its website. As a result, many Alpine resorts were covered in a thick blanket of snow. In canton Valais, there was 180 cm of snow at Crans-Montana, 170 cm at Ovronnaz and 127 cm at Portes du Soleil-Champéry, according to the Suisse Tourism snow report. In Leysin and at Glacier 3000 in Le Diablerets in canton Vaud, the snow cover was between 110 and 115 cm. In central and eastern Switzerland, there was snow at 145 cm in Grindelwald, in canton Bern, 125 cm at Sedrun-Oberalp-Andermatt and 140 cm at Elm, in canton Glarus. Another metre of snow was measured at ...